Jessica Ryan

As Scholarly Communications Librarian, Jessica Ryan AC ’17 manages faculty and student scholarship, access, and preservation for Smith College Libraries. She provides outreach, acquisition, dissemination, and metadata activities for Smith ScholarWorks, Smith’s institutional repository: a showcase and archive for scholarship and research materials created by Smith faculty, students, and staff. She assists Smith authors and creators of research and scholarship with all aspects of the scholarly cycle including author rights retention, copyright questions, research preservation, and repository compliance for grant requirements. Jessica is an enthusiastic advocate for the larger ScholarWorks’ mission, helping scholarly communities flourish through open access, quick discovery, and wide dissemination of scholarly and creative content.

Jessica also leads Smith’s Open Educational Resource (OER) program offering educational and programmatic services for faculty members to further OER adoption, adaption, and creation. The team’s work promotes this important movement to address the rising cost of textbooks as well as equity, inclusion, and accessibility issues through OER’s open licensing. Smith’s participation in the OER movement demonstrates our commitment to pedagogically dynamic and sound solutions that are responsive to changing academic landscapes, while contributing to the global scholarly commons.

Committees

Open Education Resources (OER) Team; Bargaining Committee of Smith College Libraries Workers Union (SCLWU)

Publications and Presentations

Ryan, Jessica. “Breaking Through the Word Barrier: how nomenclatures can work as comprehension inhibitors.” Presentation at the New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) Annual Spring Conference, April 5, 2019.

Ryan, Jessica. “Breaking Through the Word Barrier: version’s rights.” Presentation at the Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD) 2019, June 18, 2019

Slis.simmons.edu. (2018). Conscientious Objectors Digital Library. Project Manager for Conscience Objectors Digital Library.

Ryan, J. (2017). SPARQL a Primer. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvZ1fLA8a68. part one of a SPARQL tutorial.

Professional Affiliations

MLA International Bibliographer; Open Education Network (OEN) liaison to Smith; Oberlin Group of Libraries Working Group: Open and Equitable Access to Scholarship; Northeast Institutional Repository Day (NIRD) Conference Committee; The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP): SHARP19 planning committee, SHARP archivist 2019–2023; The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI): Small Colleges and Teaching-first Universities Working Group